Venus Nov 10th at 325-381nm UV

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged Venus this evening for the first time in UV with the Astrodon UVenus filter my wife organized for my 62 birthday.

Regards
Trevor

[noeyedeer]

some lovely cloud bands! gotta love Venus! if only it wasn't so bright visually!

happy birthday (if I'm not too late) ;)

matt

[iceman]

Nice work Trev!

[erick]

Nice! That's very interesting Trevor - only ever been a white shimmering blob for me! I've promised some folks over here a view of Venus in a crescent form in December, white shimmering blob or not. :D

[Dennis]

That’s a real cracker of a Venus, showing some lovely delicate details and tones in the planet’s atmosphere. Really nice work Trevor, it’s not often that we see you in the inner solar system!;):)

Cheers

Dennis

[Kunama]

Beautiful details Trevor.

[Merlin66]

Trevor,
Well done. Nice image!
I think, based on the camera, you're getting a bandwidth of 365-420nm.
The Astrondon curve is neat, but doesn't take into account the fall off in the CCD responce - almost <0.1% below 360nm
http://www.astrodon.com/products/filters/uvenus_filter/

[Stefan Buda]

Nice image Trevor, but I'm wondering why you used only about 60% of the available brightness range for presenting it?

Stefan

[Quark]

Thanks All for your comments.
Stefan, am having intermittent problems with the computer in my observatory that is dedicated to capturing my data. This Venus data was captured using a Laptop that has a different version of the capture and processing software on it and strange things were happening with the settings during capture.
Have attached a repro using the same raw data but reworked on my main computer on one of the few occasions today that it booted up correctly.